Avaaz Foundation
Budget
€50 — €0
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
18
3.15 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. Avaaz’s model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force. By signing up to Avaaz emails, members are rapidly alerted to urgent global issues and opportunities to achieve change. The Avaaz community campaigns in 17 languages, served by a core team on 6 continents and thousands of volunteers. Avaaz takes action -- signing petitions, funding media campaigns and direct actions, emailing, calling and lobbying governments, and organizing "offline" protests and events -- to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform the decisions that affect humanity.
EU Legislative Interests
Amendment to the EU Common Market Organisation (CMO) regulation EU-Israel Association Agreement Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal EU Digital Fairness Act (DFA) EU's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice
Communication Activities
Campaigning activities: Amendment to the EU Common Market Organisation (CMO) regulation - Public mobilisation action (December 2025) - Social media video with MEP Anna Strolenberg (December 2025) - EU Israel trade Agreement - Petition campaign sent to Avaaz members in the EU: “Israel: Let Baby Milk Into Gaza!” (June 2025) - Invitation to Avaaz members for a solidarity action in Brussels (June 2025) Digital Fairness Act - Break Up the Big Tech campaign (Nov 2025) - Messages from Avaaz members (Big Tech campaign, Nov 2025) Social Media Addiction - Letter to Cristel Shaldemose (February 2025) EU Digital Omnibus - Letter “Defend Europe's Digital Sovereignty - stop the Digital Omnibus roll backs” to MEP Alexandra Geese, MEP Brando Benifei, MEP Michael McNamara, Kai Zenner (on behalf of MEP Axel Voss) - November 2025 EU's Code of Practice for General Purpose AI - Joint letter from CSOs coordinated by Avaaz: Civil society’s urgent warning on the EU's Code of Practice for General Purpose AI (April 2025) AI Act - Letter - INTERVENTION to ensure the EU Code of Practice for General Purpose AI combats child sexual abuse material and protects our fundamental rights to Renate Nicolai and Michael McNamara (March 2025) - Request for Access to Legal Opinion provided for the purposes of drafting the Code of Practice for General Purpose AI under the EU AI Act (April 2025) - Joint letter from CSOs coordinated by Avaaz: Civil society’s urgent warning on the EU's Code of Practice for - General Purpose AI to Henna Virkuenen (April 2025) Meetings Amendment to the EU Common Market Organisation (CMO) regulation - Laurens De Meyer from the office of MEP Anna Strolenberg (November 2025) Social Media Addiction - Meeting with Fausto Matos (European Commission) (February 2025) - Meeting with MEP Kim van Sparrentak (March 2025) - Meeting with Assistant of MEP Birgit Sippel (March 2025) - Meeting with Egelyn Braun (European Commission, March 2025) - Meeting with MEP Alex Agius Saliba (March 2025) - Meeting with Assistant of MEP Walsh (March 2025) - Meeting with Assistant of MEP Schaldemose (March 2025) EU Israel Trade Agreement - HR/VP Kallas’ Cabinet: MENA Advisor Christine O’Dwyer (June 2025) - EEAS: MENA and Multilateral Human Rights Units, and Office of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights (June 2025) - DG ECHO: MENA Unit and Palestine Team (June 2025) AI ACt - Civil society dialogue organised by MEP Brando Benifei (April 2025) Consultations/Hearings - EU General Purpose AI Code of Practice - Working Group 3: EU General Purpose AI Code of Practice (January 2025) - Working Group 2 Workshop on “Risk assessment for large-scale illegal discrimination & manipulation in GPAI with systemic risk and methods from the social sciences that go beyond capability evaluations” EU General- Purpose AI Code of Practice (January 2025)
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
People vs Big Tech
Organisation Members
The Avaaz community is made up of more than 70 million members in more than 190 countries. http://www.avaaz.org/en/community.php#memberstories
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.